It was reported that the daughter of former short안전놀이터 track athlete Victor Ahn (38, Korean name Ahn Hyeon-soo) started short track.
On the 26th, Viktor Ahn’s wife, Woo Na-ri, posted a picture of her daughter, Jane Yang, on her Instagram with the caption, “Hello, I’m Jane, 9 years old.
Next, Nari Woonari added, “Full equipment completed by inheriting my dad’s goggles. As long as Jane is happy, mom is fine, really, really.”
In the photo, Jane Yang is smiling brightly in the sun, wearing goggles and short track equipment in her father, Viktor An, with a pink frame. The uniform with her father’s face on it is also eye-catching.
Nari Woo added, “I’m not a dreamer of short track, exercise is only a hobby,” revealing her desire for her daughter to enjoy short track as a hobby rather than becoming an athlete.
On the other hand, Viktor Ahn received 141 ‘likes’ for hinting at the possibility that her daughter might become a short track athlete like herself with the comment “That’s how it all starts at first”.
Meanwhile, after winning three gold medals at the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, Viktor Ahn, a former Korean national short track athlete, experienced difficulties in his athlete career due to factional fights within the short track team and the dissolution of his team, Seongnam City Hall in 2010. In December 2011, he was naturalized as a Russian citizen. did.
He competed as the Russian national team at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and won three gold medals. At the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, after Russia was embroiled in a doping scandal and was unable to participate in the tournament, he announced his retirement and then took a route as a leader.
Later, Victor Ahn appeared as a technical coach for the Chinese national team, the biggest rival of Korean short track speed skating, and was criticized by domestic fans along with the controversy over biased judgment in short track speed skating during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
While public opinion was not good, in January, he applied for the coach of the ice team at Seongnam City Hall and pushed for a return to Korea, drawing criticism again. Victor Ahn is currently working as a personal coach for 6 players from Korea National Sport University.